Welcome to episode 42 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time!

Today’s guest is Leticia Gonzalez Dos Santos! She runs the podcast-producing company Pod Media Lab.

Leticia was born and raised in Brazil she moved to California to learn English and play college tennis. In order for an international student to be accepted into a university in the US, they have to take the TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language, and Leticia didn’t know any English!

She started her education in a junior college for three years to learn English, and then she transferred to a 4-year University in Hawai’i. After graduating, she helped the tennis team with their social media presence, and this experience, along with an internship she did with the local NBC news network in Palm Springs, led her to run Pod Media Lab. 

Listen to the rest of her story - available now.  

With Love, Heidy